Khan, Bibi (2022) Social Exclusion and Moralisation: How does the Preoccupied Attachment Style moderate the relationship between Social Exclusion and Moralisation? Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
How do individuals moralise their attitudes in response to social exclusion? There is currently a limited amount of research that has been conducted into how one’s moral convictions may be altered following exclusion in the intergroup context. Therefore, this paper aims to investigate the hypotheses that one is more likely to moralise attitudes relevant to the group after being subjected to a condition of social exclusion, than one of social inclusion. Moreover, it is also hypothesised that having a preoccupied attachment style will moderate this effect; further increasing the likelihood of one engaging in moralisation. In order to explore these hypotheses, participants will partake in an online experiment concerning a student association (N = 43). The interaction hypothesis was not supported here, however strong conclusions cannot be derived from these results, as the study was underpowered. Nevertheless, preoccupied attachment style was found to be associated with the likelihood of one engaging in attitude moralisation. These findings should be used as a prompt for further investigation into this topic; however future researchers should utilise an adequately powered study with a larger and more diverse sample than the present research had access to. Exploration into this area would be valuable for the field of Social Psychology, as knowledge surrounding moralisation and the mechanisms behind it are lacking.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Fousiani, K. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | Applied Social Psychology (ASP) [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Feb 2022 11:30 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Feb 2022 11:30 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/188 |
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